The exhortation is said at Remembrance events before the Last Post is played and the Two Minute Silence.
The extract from a poem written by Robert Laurence Binyon called "For the Fallen", composed in September 1914, just a few weeks after the outbreak of the First World War.
The Exhortation:
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them."
Response: "We will remember them."
The Last Post (a sound file)
The Kohima Epitaph:
"When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say, For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today."
The verse is attributed to John Maxwell Edmonds (1875-1958), and is thought to have been inspired by the epitaph written by Simonides of Ceos to honour the Greeks who fell at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480BC.
The Burma Star Association (BEF) [Far East Veterans] use the Kohima; therefore, it would not be part of the dedication for a Royal British Legion Standard.
